The TSE Mag N°8 is out!

New Digital Chair Jean-Jacques Laffont

The French Ministry of Culture and Communication inaugurated on February 12th the new Digital Chair Jean-Jacques Laffont, involving researchers from TSE and the IAST with the support of public and private partners, Accor, Samsung, Orange, Caisse des dépôts group (CDC), Société Générale, Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD) and Société des auteurs et compositeurs de musique enregistrée (SACEM).

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TSE visitors

Each year, more than 250 invited researchers come and visit Toulouse School of Economics. This week, we are delighted to welcome Professors Marc TEBOULLE (Tel Aviv Univ) and Shoham SABACH (Technion Haïfa) for two weeks.

Highlights

New TSE working paper on environmental economics

"Power Distribution in French River Basin Committees", a new TSE working paper written by Vera Zaporozhets

News

Gorman Lecture 2015 by Jean Tirole

The Gorman lecture 2015 "Intellectual Property and Public Policy" will be given by Jean Tirole on February 24-25th 2015 at UCL. Established in 2001, the Gorman Lectures are sponsored by UCL and Princeton University Press in honor of the influential economist William Moore "Terence" Gorman.

Nicolas Treich has been appointed Co-editor-in-chief of the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (GRIR). The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (GRIR) is the academic journal of the Geneva Association and the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE). It publishes original research that advances our understanding of the economics of risk and insurance.

Bruno Jullien and Thomas Mariotti, Fellow of the Econometric Society

Bruno Jullien , TSE Scientific Director and Thomas Mariotti, Research Director has been elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, the most prestigious learned society in the field of economics. Becoming a fellow is an honorary designation highly valued by members of the economics profession.

Christian Hellwig elected to the 'European Economic Association' Council

Christian Hellwig has been elected to the European Economic Association and will sit for a term of five years, starting on January 1ft 2015. The European Economic Association is the reference scientific society for Economics in Europe.

5 march: a new Academic Talk by Emmanuelle Auriol

Emmanuelle Auriol, Professor of Economics and specialized in Development Economics will talk on Thursday, 5th March 2015, on "Anti-social behavior in profit and non profit organizations". This recent article co-written with Stefanie Brilon will be presented in Room MB II, 5pm.
Abstract:
Two types of intrinsically motivated workers are considered: “good” workers care about the mission of an organization, whereas “bad” workers derive pleasure from destructive behavior. Compared to the case with only good motivated workers, the mission-oriented sector has to resort to higher monitoring to deter bad workers from entering the sector. In equilibrium, bad workers work in the for-profit sector where they behave like “normal”people, while good workers self select into the mission-oriented sector. In the profit-oriented sector, both monitoring and bonus payments for good behavior increase to control the damage caused by bad workers. The results of the paper are illustrated by examples from child care and the threat posed by pedophiles in this sector.
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26 february: Nera Economic Consulting

Jean-Sébastien Lénik (Vice-President), Gonçalo Vilaça (Senior Consultant) and Thibaut Roques (Economic Analyst) will present a consulting case "Quantifying the economic impact of a green(er) worldwide transportation sector" to the TSE community on February 26th, 2015, Room MB II, 5pm.
was commissioned by Michelin to study the macroeconomic impacts of moving the global transportation sector towards a low-carbon pathway. This study was presented during the Michelin Bibendum Challenge, a global event dedicated to sustainable mobility, in Chengdu last November. Its conclusions are featured in the event’s flagship collaborative publication, a putting forward a new vision for sustainable mobility that was communicated to decision makers from all levels around the world.
NERA’s analysis focused on the tradeoffs faced by policy-makers in the United States, the European Union, and China over the period 2015 to 2030 and how the transportation sector could play a role to meet the goals set out in the Cancun Agreements. NERA used its proprietary model of the world economy to compare the economic impacts of a significant reduction in the tank-to-wheel CO2 emissions of the transportation sector under different scenarios and policy levers.